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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Processing

Background:

  • The left ventral occipito-temporal cortex (vOTC) is crucial for visual feature extraction.
  • Its functional connectivity (FC) variations based on task demands (lexical vs. visual) and cognitive control remain unclear, even with similar visual-semantic processing for object identification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how left vOTC-based FC differs with task-relevant representations (lexical, visual) and cognitive control demands.
  • To explore the role of explicit lexical retrieval in modulating vOTC connectivity.

Main Methods:

  • Measured neural responses to object pictures using functional connectivity (FC) analysis.
  • Manipulated task type (picture naming vs. size-judgment) and cognitive control (high vs. low interference) during picture naming.

Main Results:

  • Explicit lexical retrieval in picture naming modulated FC between left vOTC and dorsal anterior-cingulate-cortex/pre-supplementary-motor-area.
  • This modulation was absent in the size-judgment task, which lacks explicit word retrieval.
  • Increased FC between left vOTC and left caudate was observed in high versus low interference contexts during picture naming.

Conclusions:

  • Left vOTC functional specialization arises from interactions with task-relevant brain regions.
  • Task demands and cognitive control significantly shape vOTC functional connectivity patterns.
  • Findings highlight the dynamic nature of visual cortex involvement in object recognition and language processing.